Beep Update

Many of you have sent such nice wishes for a speedy recovery for Beep!  

Thank you.  

Your thoughts and prayers have been most appreciated!  

I thought I would share a few things with you about Beep.

Her surgery went well.  

She has quite a big incision though and needs to be monitored as there is no cone to use for birds.  The x-ray showed a button and a "needle" in her stomach. 

If you look closely you can see a straight line that was the "needle" above 

and to the left of the button.

This is what they actually took out of her.  It was not, in face, a needle.  

We are not sure exactly what it is.  

The bad part is that it had poked some things it should not have.  

The vet had to clean out some dead tissue and also pull the adhesions apart, 

so that equals one sore birdie!

This is her incision line.  As you can see it is pretty large!

I got to be nurse grandma on Saturday morning as my daughter had to go away for a few hours.  

Beep was pretty good with me until she work up enough to figure out that I was not her mom!  

LOL  

I took a few videos of her snuggles with me in the morning on Saturday.

My daughter is currently trying to get her interested in eating and drinking.

I had to go back to the farm on Sat night to bring enticements.

I think she ended up tube feeding her.

I think my husband will be picking up some pain meds today.

Hopefully with pain med on board she will feel more like eating.

I will keep you all posted!

~XOP~

Prayers For Beep

That's right.  

I'm asking all of you to say a quick prayer that our pet peacock, Beep, 

comes out of her surgery well today.  

She ate some things she should not have (one being a needle) and they will open her up and remove said things today, very soon.  

My daughter (Beep's mom) is a nervous wreck, as am I.  

If that itchy rash I have was not bad enough before, the stress of this is making it so much worse!

Praying Dr. G is successful and that Beep recovers and is back to her old self soon.  

Thanks friends, we all really appreciate it and I will keep you posted.

Beep at Easter 2017

Beep modeling her new diaper

~XOP~

Beep Update:

Beep is out of surgery and they are waking her up now- she's to the "breathing on her own and heartbeat is stable" stage. The vet got the needle out but could not find the button still. He managed to get into her abdominal cavity without cutting or injuring her air sacs, which was the major worry with cutting into a bird. The needle had gone through the stomach wall into the cavity and had poked a bunch of stuff to the point where it... it basically caused her insides to scab up, and things were healing sticking together that were not supposed to be together. But he pulled the needle, fixed the adhesions, cleared out dead tissue around them, and got her put back together again. I will let you know when I know more/when she is fully awake again.